Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2020. № 4 (36). P. 351—357
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
REVIEW
UDC 94(47)“1913/1917”(049.32)
Bogomolov Igor Konstantionovich, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Researcher
Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
RUSSIAN POLITICAL INVESTIGATION DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (REVIEW: Khutarev-Garnishevsky V. V. CONFRONTATION. SECRET SERVICES, ARMY AND POWER ON THE EVE OF THE FALL OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE, 1913—1917. Moscow : Gaidar Institute Publ., 2020. 648 p.)
Abstract
The review analyzes a new study of Russian political investigation, gendarmerie and police during the First World War and the Russian Revolution. Vladimir V. Khutarev-Garnishevsky, the author, dwells on such little-studied issues as the personnel policy of the gendarmerie, the recruitment of gendarme officers, the interrelation between the Special Corps of Gendarmes and the police department, the high command of the army, the government, and the Duma. Much attention is paid to the daily work of the gendarmes in the rear and at the front, as well as the activities in the counterintelligence. The author concludes that by the time of the February Revolution, the political investigation and the police were in a deep crisis, which was no longer possible to overcome.
Key words
Police, political investigation, gendarmerie, Special Corps of Gendarmes, World War I, February Revolution.
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Bogomolov I. K. Russian political investigation during the First World War and the Russian Revolution (Review: Khutarev-Garnishevsky V. V. Confrontation. Secret services, army and power on the eve of the fall of the Russian Empire, 1913—1917. Moscow : Gaidar Institute Publ., 2020. 648 p.). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2020, no. 4 (36), pp. 351—357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2020.36.20.